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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t care how uncool it makes me to be psyched to see Metallica at The Sphere. This shit looks cool as hell. youtube.com/shorts/bWtBZ...

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Almost showtime 🤘🏻 #metallica #lasvegas #thesphere #lifeburnsfaster #rock

YouTube video by SpicySteveO

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 6h

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...some to show her it was real. But I couldn't find any - & ended up w/ this. My family reads my twitter feed, so they know this is true.
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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 4h

I’m attempting to do the 1 horror movie a day thing for October and I’m starting with Guillermo del Toro’s American debut Mimic which I’ve somehow never seen.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 7h

Twitter was so good up until 2016 when Donald Trump transitioned from a rich reality show imbecile who posted about Barney Frank’s protruding nipples and how Graydon Carter’s Oscar parties weren’t hot anymore to the President of the United States and catapulted us into the worst timeline.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 8h

It sucks when talented musicians die young but it does allow them to stay cool forever while their living bandmates become increasingly dopey and embarrassing. If Cliff Burton hadn’t died he’d 100% be playing bass on the horrible Metallica and Ja Rule song in 2002. youtu.be/fV4FcDH5EiM?...

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We Did It Again

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 11h

New book prints in the shop 👽 paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/category/pri...

Photo of a print of the paperback paradise book ‘The Alien That Sucked Me Dry’

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 13h

What the fuck, dude. That's awful.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 13h

Doing Rocktober instead of Hooptober where I listen to one overplayed dad rock album a day for the whole month.

Text that says Rocktober with a jack-o-lantern doing the devil horns hand gesture

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 16h

I’m seeing them Sunday and this is also my concern. But they’re playing almost all the songs I would want to see live so I will go to this one 3 hour concert and get my lifetime fill of Smashing Pumpkins.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a shame parental advisory stickers don’t get used anymore because their presence made any album look 100 times cooler.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You have me until “his best work since Signs and The Village”

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Umm, I guess the people who said I wasted my money on VIP feel pretty fucking stupid now

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know it doesn’t seem like it but positive statements about specific races and ethnicities - like Asians being good at math and Hispanics being resistant to falling based injuries - are also examples of racism.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m convinced Hegseth is battling a monster case of erectile dysfunction or something. His fixation on testosterone levels is so bizarre. (I know this is a thing with male conservatives in general and I believe their dicks are also messed up)

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Continuing to blame Ralph Nader for Gore’s loss in 2026 should get you blacklisted from being paid to write about politics. It’s like being a math teacher who insists 2+2 = 14.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Michael Tracey looks like a golem made of dirty laundry.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The through line with every AI booster is they hate interacting with people and they want to force everyone to adopt their antisocial behavior patterns using technology.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like I have maybe a dozen followers who will appreciate this but it’s crazy that I get to see The Tear Garden live tonight.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found the shirt I’m going to wear to see Metallica at the Sphere next week.

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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Searchers (1956) directed by John Ford Cruising (1980) directed by William Friedkin

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Dr. Death Metal @theunshored.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And when people are like, “But in the future you won’t be able to tell if it’s AI or not!” Sure you will. It’s called “interacting with other humans.” You know, seeing shows, meeting the band, having a scene, trusting good journalists to be diligent. This isn’t fucking Blade Runner.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI will never be able to make good or compelling art because it’s essentially a really complicated copy machine being designed by weirdos who fundamentally misunderstand what people get from engaging with art.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He looks like that becuase he’s got one of his children stuffed under his shirt to use as a bullet proof vest.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love Saint Vitus 2.0 because it looks like what 90s movies led me to believe metal clubs were like before I started going to shows.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can’t believe next week I’ll ascend to an elite tier of Unc Status

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was just making a list of thrash albums to check out for my friend's daughter who somehow stumbled into the music and it reminded me that Détente is one of the most slept-on bands of 1980s L.A. thrash, or even thrash in general. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnJS...

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Detente Vultures in the Sky

YouTube video by DETENTE

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What Folks Really Mean When They Claim To Have Never Heard The New Evil Invaders song "Dreamstate" (They're Posers) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xvc...

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EVIL INVADERS - Dreamstate (Offical Video) | Napalm Records

YouTube video by Napalm Records

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know the GOP is out of juice if they’re dusting off migrant caravan stories a month before the election.

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the kneejerk anti-country sentiment on here is drab but i put a lot of the blame on the likes of morgan wallen but if you judge any genre by what breaks containment you're gonna have a weird ass view of it bc nobody is in the pilot seat there

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you really want to know what male loneliness looks like go read the 5 star reviews for a hooters restaurant

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hell yeah we’re bringing back doctors recommending cigarettes.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Performatively announcing to Bluesky that I’ve never even heard of Brooks & Dunn’s 1992 hit single “Boot Scootin' Boogie” and I’ve definitly never heel, toe, do-si-do’d or gotten down, turned around and went to town.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m seeing Kamelot tonight and one of the openers is a pirate themed symphonic metal band which is Hell to me.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Muscular Christianity is my favorite weird niche Christian movement because it’s exactly what it sounds like but all the guys involved with it look like this:

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

RIP to Richard Harrison. A titan among men to connoisseurs of weird cinema trash. youtu.be/0ziWt0DFQAY?...

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Richard Harrison Phone Conversation

YouTube video by Howie Benatovitch

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know it would be extremely illigal but it would also be extremely funny if Mamdani had Netanyahu arrested.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy 35th to an album that full-on rewired my teenage brain the first time I listened to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWK...

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Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by NirvanaVEVO

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Twitter is back, baby! It was looking bad for a bit with all the Nazis, AI CSAM and the fact that the site is broken, but they got an elderly movie studio exec posting now.

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh shit Leng Tch'e is back! These guys were up there with Nasum in terms of quality 2000s grindcore. I totally forgot about them because they haven't put out an album in like a decade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxC...

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Leng Tch'e - Hammered Into Collapse (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Season of Mist

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keegan @franziamom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At work on my magnum opus

Guided by Voices songs that sound like Magic the Gathering Cards:

Wings of Thorn
Dragons Awake!
Burns Carpenter, Man of Science
Vault of Moons
Dusty Bushworms
Tricyclic Looper
Bulldog Skin
Jane of the Waking Universe
Instrument Beetle
Surgical Focus
Sweeping Bones
Wondering Boy Poet
Trendspotter Acrobat
Mesh Gear Fox
Plate of Scales
Instinct Dwelling
Expecting Brainchild
Unstable Journey
Fly Into Ashes
Weeping Bogeyman

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